vdr January 2007

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78 discussions

SetPlayMode() on radio channels
by Thiemo 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi, is there a special reason that SetPlayMode() is always called with "pmAudioVideo" even on radio channels instead of pmAudioOnly or pmAudioOnlyBlack? It would make things much easier if it would do so (for displaying a background image). Can you give me a hint where I could change this? cheers, Tim

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VDR-on-Mac patches
by Tero Siironen 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I've made patches for VDR 1.4.5 and few plugins (Subtitles, streamdev and xineliboutput, softdevice) to run them on Mac OS X (10.4.8 Intel tested) Notice, VDR can only be run as client for another VDR system as there's no support for DVB devices. Server-VDR needs a streamdev-server or xineliboutput plugin which can stream the reception to the client. Patches and short instrucions can be found from here: http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/vdr-darwin/vdr-darwin.html -- Tero

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vdr-1.5.0: PrimaryLimit ?
by s.huelswitt＠gmx.de 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, I'm playing around with 1.5.0 Initialy I wasn't able to tune to any channel. Even for FTA vdr kept saying "not available". It took me nearly an hour to find the reason for that: I had set PrimaryLimit=20 I have this setting since ages, but cannot say why anymore. I found that vdr runs with PrimaryLimit=0 only. So my question is: what is the meaning of PrimaryLimit if there is exactly one setting which makes vdr operable? FYI: I think the change is in cDevice::SetChannel(), line 674. In the GetDevice() call the priority was Setup.PrimaryLimit, now is 0. Regards. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt(a)gmx.de | http://www.muempf.de/

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[Announce] epgsearch-0.9.20
by Christian Wieninger 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch. Description and download: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.20.tgz 2006-01-30: Version 0.9.20 new: - support for vdr-1.5.0. Note: the CA support in the timer conflict check is highly experimental because I have no CAMs to test it! - epgsearch can now also modify manual timers according to EPG changes. When using epgsearch's own timer edit menu you can select between * no check * by event ID * by channel/time Please refer to the README (1.4.4 Setup/Timer Programming/Default timer check method) for further notes. - the timespan used in the favorites menu can now be adjusted via setup. Default is 24h. - Event announcements: If the user presses one of the keys 'Ok', '0', ... '9' while the announcement of an event is displayed, he will be asked if further announcements of this event should be disabled for ever (user hit '0' or 'Ok') or for the next 'x' days (user hit '1' to '9'). After pressing 'Ok' again, this setting will be stored. - With the new setup option "No announcements when replaying" you can now suppress any announcements of broadcasts when you currently replay anything. Suggested by Andreas Mair. - Besides the done file for recordings there is now a done file for timers (timersdone.conf). This allows deleting timers without getting them again with the next search timer update. With the new menu 'Show timers created' in Search/Actions one can edit this list. The whole feature can be disabled in the search timers setup. Note: the done list is only populated with timers that were newly created with this release. - new addon plugin 'quickepgsearch': it creates a main menu entry 'Quick search' and can be used to search for any event in the EPG. Include it with '-Pquickepgsearch' , suggested by SurfaceCleanerZ@vdrportal. - new setup option "Limit channels from 1 to" to speed up epgsearchs call. If the current channel is above the limit, all channels will be displayed. Suggested by Uwe@vdrportal. - new SVDRP commands: * 'LSRD' returns a list of all recording directories used in existing recordings, timers, search timers or as specified in epgsearchdirs.conf * 'LSTT [ID]' to list all search templates, or the one with the passed ID (format is the same as epgsearch.conf) * 'NEWT <settings>' to add a new search template REMARK: the value of element ID is ignored. epgsearch will always assign the next free ID * 'DELT <ID>' to delete the search template with ID * 'EDIT <settings>' to modify an existing search template * 'DEFT [ID]' returns the ID of the default search template. When passing an ID it activates the corresponding template as default. - you can now also use sendmail for mail delivery besides the script sendemail.pl (-> setup), suggested by Patrick Cernko - new variables: * '%timespan%' to be used in menus or mails. It will be replaced with the timespan from now to the begin of an event (e.g. 'in 15m'). It is now used in the default menu template of the favorites menu, where the date field was removed. * '%length%' for the length of a broadcast in seconds. - thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for finnish translation update fixes: - manually created timers are now neither deleted nor modified by any search timers. - the addon conflictcheckonly was compiled even if WITHOUT_CONFLICTCHECKONLY was defined in the Makefile, thanks to Ronny Kornexl for reporting. - search term and directory support now the characters 'ß' (only for language german) and '@'. - 'avoid repeats' had a bug (in some special cases) that created a timer for any later repeat instead of the first event. - a search with "Use day of week" AND "Use time" where "Start before" is after midnight now also matches events on the next day til "Start before". E.g. "Start after 22:00" and "Start before 03:00" on monday will also match an event at 01:00 at tuesday. - already recording timers are now modified only, if the timers stop time has changed (e.g. by an EPG update), thanks to Mike Constabel for reporting. - fixed a bug in evaluation of user variables, thanks to Mike Constabel for reporting and remote debugging - fixed a bug in conflict mail notification concerning timers without assigned events Have fun! Christian

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Problems receiving couple of german channels DVB-S
by Peer Oliver Schmidt 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, I have problems receiving some channels (ARD, ZDF,N3, DMAX) in good quality. Receiving other channels (SAT.1, RTL, Pro7, Das Vierte) works just fine. I have three budget TT cards connected to a multiswitch in my attic, just a few meters cable away from my dish. Each DVB-S card is running on a different IRQ. Is it possible, I just miswired the multiswitch? Any idea on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt PGP Key ID: 0x83E1C2EA

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Bug in selecting audio channel over digital out
by Patrick Mackin 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Today I noticed that when I select left or right audio channel, this only takes effect on the analog audio out, not the digital out of my Nexus card. From my Nexus, I have video (yellow), audio right (red), and audio left (white) run to my television. I have the digital audio out (black) run to my stereo system in another room. When I switch to a radio station with different broadcasts on the left and right channels, I can select either left or right on my remote. The audio plays fine on the TV, but I still have the garbled mix of both channels on the digital output. I don't know if this is a bug in vdr or the Nexus drivers or firmware. Nexus 2.3, 1ghz Athlon XP, 1gb RAM, VDRLive CD installed to harddrive

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cdda plugin: cd-text does not work
by Halim Sahin 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hello, Cddb is working fine but no cd-text output was shown. I am using cdda-0.1.0. Any ideas? Halim

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frontend tuning timeouts break DD AC3 stream
by Thomas Bartschies 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi, I'm experiencing the usual DD A3 stream breaks here. Now I have discovered that the epg scan seems to trigger them, by tuning to some channels. vdr logs frontend tuning timeouts synchronously to the stream breaks my AV Receiver displays. They can only be caused by a background job like the epg scan. Also the timeouts occur on the primary card, which seem to be sometimes used to make scans. I'm not sure if the tuning timeouts were caused because the channels are encrypted, or by invalid data in the channels.conf. But that should have no meaning here. The timeouts can be caused by the firmware or driver, or in vdr by tuner thread locking issues. I need help to sort this out. I have a three FF card system. Why does vdr use the Primary Card for scans anyway? Shouldn't all of this occur on a non-primary card all of the time? How can I force vdr to not use the primary device for PID,EPG and all other scans? At least for further testing. Best Regards, Thomas

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request for sources.conf enhancement
by Markus Hahn 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi there Im implement nit filter in (reel) channelscan. For this, it would nice to have a litle enhancement of sources.conf Nowdays it locks like this: "SourceString" "Description" Could we improve this to "SourceString" "Description", "startFrequency,sRate, ....." regards markus

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silly Question - new wide screen
by Linux TV homemaillist 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

I've just connected my VDR box to my Sony Bravia 32" LCD. I'm running the vdr-xine plugin. When I play recordings the screen zooms right up to the 16:9. But when I'm just viewing the OSD (no DVB card working yet) it's only displaying in 4:3. If I view a movie from "xine --fullscreen movie.avi" it zooms to the full screen. I'm sure this is "idiot error". any takers?

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